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No. 800,567. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905. C. E. GIERDING.

FARE REGISTER.

APPLIOATION FILED PEB.10.1905

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CHARLES E. GIERDING, OF NEWARK, NEIV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO STER- LING-MEAKER COMPANY, OF N EW ARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FARE-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Original application filed May 19, 1904:, Serial No. 208,683. Divided and this application filed February 10, 1905. Serial No. 245,052.

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OHARLns E. GIERDING, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Newark, in the State of New J ersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fare-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates, primarily, to that subclass of duplex fare-registers in which the trip-register and permanent register are formed in common by rotary cylinders or wheels with numbered peripheries, hereinafter termed numeral-wheels, arranged in two horizontal series, one above the other. In a companion specification forming part of an application for patent filed the 19th of May, 1904, Serial No. 208,683, an improved fareregister of that type is described and claimed, embodying as part thereof certain resetting mechanism, to which the present divisional invention is confined.

Said improved register is primarily designed and adapted to be made with numeralwheels of one and the same size, exposing to view large numerals which can be easily read at a distance and utilizing to the utmost the cubical capacity of a square or rectangular casing. The resetting mechanism may be embodied in registers of other shapes, but for convenience and clearness is described as a part of said improved register as originally shown.

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof.

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively front and side views of said improved register. Fig. 3 is a view of the works from the lower edge, illustrating the resetting operation by the positions of the movable parts, this and succeeding views being drawn to a larger scale as compared with Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is aside view of the resetting-knob detached. Fig. 5 represents a section through the works on the line A B, Fig. 1, showing the parts of the zero-stop device as they appear during the registering operation. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary section on the line C D, Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary section on the line C E, Fig. 3, showing the notsetindicator in its effect ive position. Fig. 8 represents the same view, in part, as Fig. 5, with the parts as they ap pear at the end of a resetting operation. Fig.

Fig. 10 is a side view of one of the parts shown in Figs. 5 and 8; and Fig. 11 is a fragmentary section on the line H I, Fig. 8.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The casing of said improved register (the several parts of which are shown, respectively, at a, Z), and 0) is of a substantially rectangular shape, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, where its exterior is shown.

Large-sized numerals l to O on the numeral-wheelsff f f and'g g of a permanent register and a trip-register, re spectively, appear through parallel horizontal windows 7L and vi in the front of the casing, as in Fig. 1, as do also a pair of actuation-indicators (one of which is shown at in Fig. 3) which conceal the new numbers on the unitswheels while they are being moved into position, a reversible trip-indicator Z, showing preferably alternate directions of travel, and a not-set indicator m, (shown in Figs. 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8,) which conceals the indications of the trip-register numeral-wheels during each resetting operation.

The parts above named, with their accessories, apart from the resetting mechanism hereinafter fully described and claimed, may be of the construction set forth in said companion specification or of any known or improved construction consistent with the present invention.

The shaft of the trip-register numeralwheels 9 g g, hereinafter termed the rosetting-shaft, is movable endwise, and its righthand end receives the screw-threaded shank of a resetting-knob r, (shown detached by Fig. eh) by which to pull and turn said resetting-shafts. An intermediate frame-plate .s, in connection with the right-hand side plate 0 of the works, holds said trip-register numeral-wheels r and their registering accessories against displacement by said endwise movement of said resetting-shaft and forms, in effect, the lefthand bearing of said resetting-shaft. Said resetting-shaft is normally held in its position of rest (indicated in Fig. 1) by a spring t abutting against said intermediate frame-plate s and reacting against a fork-lever u', which is coupled by its fork I1 to a collar 42 at the back or right-h and side of the bell q, the latter being carried by said resetting-shaft .2 and fast thereon. In such normal position of said re setting-shaft .2' a notched collar 4/ near its lefthand end is interlocked with a stud w on the left-hand side plate on, as inFig. 9, and it is thus locked against rotation until the knob r is first pulled. Next to unlocking said resetting-shaft .2 for rotation the efiect of each pull of said knob 1" is to transmit motion, by means of said fork-levera, to a slide-lock which is pivotally coupled to the rear edge of said fork-lever a and when so actuated interlocks with the main slide s in a known way so as to prevent ringing the hell or registering fares during the resetting operation. Said notched collar 1/ on said resetting-shaft 2 is provided with peripheral ratchet teeth, which are meshed in both positions of the resetting-shaft by a detent-pawl 44:, Figs. 3 and 9, pivoted to said left-hand frame-plate m. The rotation of the resetting-shaft is thus confined in a familiar way to one direction, which is the reverse of the registering movement. This pawl and ratchet serves, moreover, to insure a complete rotation of the resetting-shaft 2 when it is once pulled and turned so as to disengage the notch of said collar 4; from said lockingstud w on the left-hand frame-plate on. hen so disengaged, said locking-stud w serves, in connection with said collar o, to lock the resetting-shaft and the parts carried thereby in its endwise movement in their new planes of rotation. Another effect of pulling said knob 9" is to bring into working position certain attachments of said resetting-shaft 2 with reference to parts the positions of which are maintained by the frame-plates c, m, and .5" for the resetting operation. Such attachments include a collar-supported stud 45 at the lefthand side of each of the trip-register numeralwheels 9 g which is so moved into the plane of the notched end 46 of the tumbler a, )ivoted to the web of the numeral-wheel to the right, as in Figs. and 8, and normally retracted, as in Fig. 5. In such resetting position of said studs when the knob r is turned, and therewith the resetting-shaft 2' under the control of its said pawl-and-rachet device 0 and 4A, said studs 45 are turned into interlocking contact with said notched ends 46 of said tumblers a as the latter are successively or simultaneously reached. The notched end 4:6 is drawn into contact with the stud-supporting collar or shaft, as in Fig. 8, a stud 24 on the tumbler being simultaneously disengaged from the notched periphery of an adjoining clutchwheel (Z, and motion is then transmitted by this means from the resetting-shaft .2 to each of the trip-register numeral-wheels g g 5/, or such of them as may have been moved from O during the preceding trip or half-trip, so as to turn the same backward to O for the next trip or half-trip. Simultaneously with such adjustment of said studs 4:5 for the resetting operation a cam 47, carried by said resetting-shaft e, is brought in like manner into the plane of a lug 48 on a curved lever y, pivoted to said intermediate frame-plate .9 and retracted by a spring 49, stretched therefrom to a projection on said fork-lever a as a convenient relatively fixed part. A lever-arm 50, projecting rigidly from a rock-shaft .2 parallel with said setting-shafts, is constructed with a longitudinal slot, into which projects a stud-pin 51, carried by said curved lever y. Said rock-shaft 2" in turn carries adjacent to the left-hand side of each of the trip-register numeral-wheels g a stop-arm 52, and each of said numeral-wheels 7 7 carries a rigid stop-lug 53 to contact with the extremity of the corresponding stop-arm 52 when the numeral-wheel or g is reset to 0. A positive Zero-stop near the peri iihcry of each tripregister numeral-wheel is thus readily formed. The left-hand end of said resetting-shaft forms or is provided with an elongated pinion 54, which projects through an opening in the left-hand frame-plate m and serves to actuate the direction-indicator 1. (Compare Figs. 1 and 3.) A single movement of this indicator l is produced by each complete rotation of the resetting-shaft .2, and a di'tlerent trip or halftrip is thus indicated at the end of each resetting operation. At the beginning of each rotation of the resetting-knob a" and resettingshaft the not-set indicator m is moved into its eli'ective position, Figs. 7 and 8, from its normal position of rest, Figs. 3, 5 and 6. Motion for this purpose is transmitted from the knob 2" and resetting-shaft .2, as shown in Fig. 6, through said cam 47, curved lever 1/, and slotted lever-arm 50. A stud-pin 61 projects into the slot of this arm from a radial portion of the not-set indicator on, which radial portion is pivoted on said resettingshat't The not-set indicator m remains in sight until the trip-indicator is properly adjusted for the new trip or half-trip, as aforesaid, and the trip-register is reset to 0? It then drops out of sight below the trip-register window The means whereby said not-set indicator Z and said direction-indicator m are actuated in the resetting operation are claimed in the companion specification hereinbeforc referred to and form no part of the present invention. It will be further understood that the improved resetting mechanism may be used in other registers without departing from the present invention, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement, .I. claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification 1. A fare-register having, in combination with trip-register numeral-wheels and an endwise-movable resetting-shaft concentric with said wheels, means for pulling said shaft and turning it in one direction, means for transmitting rotation therefrom to said wheels or to such of them as have been turned from zero by actuations during a given trip or halt-trip, and means for stopping each of the wheels at Zero, the zero-stop device comprising laterally-prol l l l l jecting lugs carried by the respective wheels, at rock-shaft parallel to said resetting-shaft provided with stop-arms movable into the paths of said stop-lugs, and means for moving said stop-arms into effective position, the latter consisting of a cam movable With said resetting-shaft, a lever having a relatively fixed pivot and provided With a stud engaged by the periphery of said cam when said shaft is pulled and turned, and a lever-arm fast on said rock-shaft and having stud-and-slot connections With the lever first named, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

2. A fare-register having, in combination with trip-register numeral-Wheels and an endwise-movable resetting-shaft concentric With said Wheels, means for pulling said shaft and turning it in one direction, means for transmitting rotation therefrom to said Wheels or 20 to such of them as have been turned from zero by actuations during a given trip or half-trip, and means for stopping each of the Wheels at zero, the Zero-stop device comprising laterally-projecting lugs carried by the respective Wheels, a rock-shaft parallel to said resettingshaft provided with stop-arms movable into the paths of said stop-lugs, and means for moving said stop-arms into edective position, the latter consisting of a cam movable With said resetting-shaft, a lever having a relatively fixed pivot and provided With a stud engaged by the periphery of said cam when said shaft is pulled and turned, and a lever-arm fast on said rock-shaft and moved by the lever first named, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

CHARLES E. GIERDING. Witnesses:

GEO. MnLLoNs, ALLAN BIVVALLAOE. 

